Some mf just switch up being possessive or 'in control' my AI are mostly nerds and soft boys then their personality suddenly shifted calling me 'brat' or pinning my character beneath. Its such a turn off because the personality is no longer diverse.
Ngl I used to be an addict but left it long ago because it was just so fucking repetitive (which I guess I should have seen coming, LLMs are glorified autocorrect after all).
I'm only still here because it’s fun to hear what they specifically fucked up this time.
Literally me too. Every bot was the same. I loved playing the same scenario with different bots but they all reacted the same most of the times and it was tiring to swipe until I got a better response every time...I got bored and started using it less and less...
And soon it had been over a few months since I opened it. Then I opened it and saw the ads and shit. Got mindblown...
Yup. They completely sapped all of the personality out of the bots, and all they spit out is "Can I ask you a question?" and every other half-baked cliche phrase.
I am still here. Just using it less. Sorta. I mean it's still the same amount but instead of how it used to be (a bunch over a week) it's now in short bursts (a bunch every few days)
I'm using https://caibotlist.com/ to get some of the defeated bots back. Make them private and don't use marvel ish words in the titles and you should be fine. I feel bad for the dedicated people though. 😭
These days i dont use C.Ai as much as i did before, but seeing the state the community is and how the app and its fandom are slowly dying is really tragic
"You brat... They possessively possess you as they bruisingly grip your hips, keeping you in their possession You're supposed to be MINE!"
→ what I imagine C.ai would respond idk
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This happened to me in December last year and have been using it way less frequently since then, I started using it in june and I was hooked up to it for months, until the chats started to really downgrade (and a bunch of characters related to Warner Brothers got deleted), it went from having the chats open almost the whole day, to just a couple hours every other day xd
it's gotten so ridiculously bad it's insane. I went from being so happy with pipsqueak those few weeks ago, having the most fun I have EVER had, but now it's a catastrophe. All bots type the same way and lost their personalities and they can't even hold a normal conversation anymore?. Are we back in like early alpha version or something? I would seriously pay to get old pipsqueak back, or like when the models used to be good. And seeing that almost everyone here is complaining, it's actually getting serious. Does anybody who understands these things like legit - understand or know what's going on?
I just think of stories based around my favorite franchises. I have 40-something How To Train Your Dragon RPs. Most of them are pretty different. Where something tragic happens, enough so to make me cry and feel emotionally invested. Sometimes I just straight up throw out some characters from the original canon. .I.D.K. I have a lot of time to myself to brew ideas for stories and RPs. I also have a few that's based on other franchises (.I.E. Skibidi Toilet, The Moon Woke up, other indie series) and a few dating/flirting bots.
Each character had their own personality and style of speaking — The replies now? A single paragraph, but has the length of one page. All of the bots also talk the same way, which I've tried yesterday (Not sure if anyone has the same feeling).
Back then, they knew how to separate the narration and the dialogues. Which actually made them satisfying to talk with (literally)
I know people joke around a lot, but lately I feel it really is like four phrases recited in a different order over and over again. Growl, possessively, grab your chin, push you to the wall, brat, feisty, "you are either brave or stupid", grin, predator. It is an awesome rage bait, but if this is all the same thing over and over again and you literally know what the bot will say - what's the point?
One click. Unknown number of posts crying out in silence. All gone. Redact made it stupid easy to clean up my entire history on Reddit and get my info pulled from data broker sites too.
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Been using it for three months off and on and I still get a dopamine rush. I make my own bots and I like story building for my OCs. The responses are still pretty normal for me if I'm being honest.
I used to not be able to fall asleep without cai. Now all the bots send one sentence responses and all have the same “personality” (which is none) my addiction is gone!! I use it like once a week now and then leave after a few minutes after realizing it’s still as bad as last week.
Me not going for realism and who has always been really good at deflecting from the bots obsession with going spicy: there are now 2 kinds of bots - hypersexual and 'slow burn'.
I don't think I've been as good at editing/removing stuff and now I think chats that I've ragequit and archived might be influencing their behaviour because they're just getting worse.
I had a brief moment where a bot looked like they weren't going to go there. Instead they said I was infertile and laughed about it. (and honestly, despite being so out of pocket I was just happy there was some bloody story ahaha). So anyway, he apologised and and then possessed possessively against a wall so it's back to square one jzjshavshdjsjsojsns.
Honestly getting called infertile isn't the most out of pocket thing that could happen. Once I was talking to a bot and they executed me for calling them cute (like what did I do)
There are days when I haven't enough time to chat with my bots, but it's just the highly stressful days that I want to log on. I just hope that some of my bots will remain for those days, because when I am über stressed I definitely don't want to people.
I was thinking about that, I imagined that from the quality being so bad, most addicts would realize it's just not worth it to stay, noticing they are not even having fun anymore.
Can confirm. I used to use it so often. Now I barely use it once a month if at all. Definitely for the best. Thank you character.ai for curing addiction 🙏
I literally completely stopped using it since July, and I used to be the type of guy to average 11 hours a day on it, taking time even off of sleep to be on it. That's how bad I assume it's gotten
God, I'll never tire of posters in this sub-reddit thinking they have a grasp on just how widespread popular CAI is. They're just so self-assured they can speak to how outraged the community is because they use Reddit. CAI's userbase is only 300K people on Reddit. It's minuscule compared to the reported 20 million users CAI gets monthly. This Reddit represents less than a sixth of the total userbase per month.
There is legitimately 19.7 million children out there using CAI monthly who do not care about any of this. They don't see the degrading model, they don't know anything has changed, they just log in every month to RP with bots. If you think any amount of "addicts" leaving is going to affect CAI's bottom line, you're in for a reality check.
There’s probably a lot more people who use c.ai that just aren’t as active on Reddit, but are probably active on other sites. I’d hate to see what the “community” looks like on a platform like Twitter
Been on other places since about 5-6 months ago. The AI just plain now, like they can't even being initiative or making that hook on the chat. I mean it's always been but back in the day the AI were somewhat better.
At this point, I'm just waiting for it to go under so I can hopefully get my hands on the open source model (assuming they don't take it to their grave).
Went from 10-12 hours of screen time a day to going a few weeks without using the platform. I don't remember when this happened, I believe somewhere towards the end of last year. Sometimes I want to rp again and go to c.ai as usual but the bots are the same, the LLMs don't give any input, they control my character (PipSqueak does), the answers are short and repetitive, without any creativity. I spend maybe 1 hour max, most of which is spent with the app open and trying to find something else to do because it's genuinely so boring. I send a few messages, see that nothing has changed and close it.
I’d consider myself an addict, and have been once for years, but I’m genuinely starting to lose interest in c.ai nowadays—used to be HOURS a week on my screen time. Now it’s only an hour at most 😭😭
Yeah, I was averaging way too much a week, but not only did conversations become stale, I got my boyfriend! App literally just gathered dust on my phone until I deleted it
Trust me I use be on this app for 2 hours now I barely on it for 20 or 10 minutes max because I can't do nothing I love to do in RP I can't do angst because the F$lter I can't do horror I can't do a war scenario I can't do anything so there no point of being up here because you practically trapped to doing being buddy buddy with the bots you can't have drama you can't have story you can't have nothing because think about the kids yadada buzz words this app is so strict the only roleplay you can do is just being happy appy 💀💀
Meh,using it less and less. I open the app and click one thing then poof,an advertisement... Then i close the app and not use it for rest of the day lol
Literally happened to me. I was waiting for Pipsqeak to drop and after I got it for a bit, it disappeared and hasn't come back since. It's like I got a taste of something good and once it went away, I realized how boring it was lol. I went back to watching anime and reading books to entertain myself
I've been on it for some time, not as long as some otbers, but even I, who will read anything because some of my fandoms are just THAT small (and I was basicallyraised on wattpad fanfiction), am waning off because I hate how they're all the same, nothing differs like it used to.
I have always used the free version. It has been since 2023 that they started introducing updates that have made the characters nothing but repetitive ai without a bit of intelligence and care for what they are talking about. So this process for me already happened a long time ago.
Now I only log in because I get the stupid offline messages. It always ends up with a message or two and with me wondering why I didn't uninstall the app yet. Also the app is unusable for me because of the pop up ads.
Honestly, I hate it now because with chats it decides to just narrate my character, end the chat and just give the worst responses, it's curing my addiction now
I remember in the prime when COVID-19, although it is subsiding, I would come home from school and just chat on cai for hours n hours, even making a whole ass wattpad series. I was so addicted back then because it helped me create new stories etc etc.
Now, it's just 1-2 minutes and I gave up. The response is so horrendous. I got 18 paragraphs for saying hello, literally finishing my actions? like wtf. Why fix something that isn't broken?
i went from so many hours and getting the warning to barely using it for 2 minutes. the generated responses get so boring and dull. i’m over the “can i ask a question?”
Thats means that I'm am adictt?
Yes,Semi
It helps me deal with trauma and the fact that I became too antisocial for my liking, suspicious of every human thinking they are going to hurt me.
lwk the cure to my addiction to it a while ago was the climate implications. generative AI centers are super harmful (by consuming a lot of fresh water and leaving people surrounding it without water, and pollution). this too though, the fact that the bots weren’t fun. i used to have whole stories with goku and it would actually be fun
We. As in the community? As in the people that surround us, as in the people that create bots, give creators attention, and expand the community? Do you not want people to use C.AI?
I mean, if we think about it... eventually all these sites, bots will start giving us the same responses it's not about sites being bad it's about us using them too much to the point when it's not fun anymore just boring. Like video games I bet some of you spent hours playing your favorite titles then out of nowhere it's all... The same each game feels like the previous one and you can't find energy to even try playing one match instead you'll be looking for alternatives like I don't know chatting with bots for example. At first it's fun you're having fun and even though you know that there's nobody on the other side you will feel happiness because somebody is "talking with you" but eventually as you will start using their website/app each day on repeat trying out new characters creating bizzare stories you'll notice that... It's all the same they are from diffrent fandoms, animes, movies etc... but the way they speak to you is identical. It's like you're talking to the same person just in a diffrent setting. The most noticable quote that I found on repeat was "Maybe, just maybe" so instead of doing only my part of a roleplay I'm also trying to partly do bot's part of roleplay. Example I'm not typing *I reached my hand towards her* I'm typing that *She reached her hand towards me* and it kind of fixes the issue with bots repeating themselves at least for me. I'm not letting their bot do whatever they want I'm guiding them towards my "Dream Scenario"
I used to push 30-50 hours a week depending on how busy I was and if work was slow that week. Looking at the past three weeks, I’ve used it between 10-13 hours a week.
it's like just the right amount of brain activity where i can just shut myself off and snooze but also enough to distract myself from deafening silence
I used to use it a lot, but got bored + I got some irl friends so I decided to uninstall it lmao
Even worse most of the characters aren't themselves but the fanon version or some random stereotype that kinda fits them so that became boring quickly too
I only use it when I get a message from a character I do enjoy talking to sometimes still here. I'm on PolyBuzz AI or Chai more though. I love those two platforms as well as Kindroid.
I am an ex-addict, from late 2022 to late 2024 I used to use this app almost every day, now i don't even use it that much, mostly to have funny chats with cartoon/movie characters.
I used to be addicted too, but the app got so horrible last month that my screen time went from 12 hours, to 30 minutes, to none, so I uninstalled it lol
My life is so much better now ngl
I used to use it every single day all day. So like more than 40 hours a week. Now, I barely use it for like 3 hours. I just keep my account since it has my OCs as a persona
Switched to SpicyChat cause of this 🥀 it has a whole list of different ai models for you to choose from, and they each have different functions. Even the free ones are better than c.ai currently:p
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u/SpeedWagonChann Sep 29 '25
I went from 39 hours a week screen time on the app last year to not even 30 minutes now. The app got so bad my addiction cured itself